R. Kelly’s appeal on his 2022 convictions for child pornography and enticement counts has been denied by the Supreme Court.
Now that all direct appeals from the decision have been exhausted, the embattled R&B artist, whose official name is Robert Kelly.
The appeal filed by the singer’s attorneys was predicated on the claim that the statute of limitations ought to have prevented the case from the start.
His attorney, Jennifer Bonjean, explained to the outlet earlier this year that an updated federal law extending the time limit was passed in 2003, arguing it could not be used in accusations against Kelly because his alleged crimes occurred between the late 1990s and early 2000s.
“Retroactive application of the 2003 amendment [does] not only fly in the face of congressional intent. It violates notions of fundamental fairness,” Bonjean detailed.
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R. Kelly was convicted on three of the four counts of producing child pornography and three of the five counts of luring a juvenile into having sex with a criminal in September 2022. He was given a 20-year jail sentence the following February.
He filed a petition with the Supreme Court in July of 2024.
Kelly has already filed an appeal against a different 30-year sentence she received for federal convictions in New York of sex trafficking and racketeering. September 2021 found the 57-year-old guilty of the offenses.
